#aught

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#always #better #enough #good #never

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#abuse #attacking #brutal #child #child abuse

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#because #billy #caught #cheating #children

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#because #comedy #critic #dramatic #exacting

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#audience #burst #directed #film #heard

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#against #author #birds #chickens #dried

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby. ↗

— Star Jones

#baby #every #me #relationship #taught

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook. ↗

— Erica Jong

#daughter #i #mother

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. ↗

— Erica Jong

#adored #attacked #become #book #daughters

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair. ↗

— June Jordan

#big #both #fair #father #fight